MRC Epidemiology Unit

 

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of referral to a commercial open group behavioural weight management programme in adults with overweight and obesity: 5-year follow-up of the WRAP randomised controlled trial

Ahern AL, Breeze PR, Fusco F, Sharp SJ, Islam N, Wheeler G, Hill AJ, Hughes CA, Duschinsky R, Thomas C, Bates S, Woolston J, Stubbings M, Whittle F, Boothby C, Bostock J, Jebb SA, Aveyard P, Boyland EJ, Halford JCG, Morris S, Brennan A, and Griffin SJ

The Lancet Public Health. Oct 2022

(DOI : 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00226-2)

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Effects of covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020: time series analysis in 37 countries.

Islam N, Jdanov DA, Shkolnikov VM, Khunti K, Kawachi I, White M, Lewington S, and Lacey B

BMJ (Clinical research ed.). Nov 2021

(DOI : 10.1136/bmj-2021-066768)

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Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries.

Islam N, Shkolnikov VM, Acosta RJ, Klimkin I, Kawachi I, Irizarry RA, Alicandro G, Khunti K, Yates T, Jdanov DA, White M, Lewington S, and Lacey B

BMJ (Clinical research ed.). May 2021

(DOI : 10.1136/bmj.n1137)

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Using health economic modelling to inform the design and development of an intervention: estimating the justifiable cost of weight loss maintenance in the UK.

Bates SE, Thomas C, Islam N, Ahern AL, Breeze P, Griffin S, and Brennan A

BMC Public Health. Mar 2021

(DOI : 10.1186/s12889-022-12737-5)

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Patterns of multimorbidity and risk of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection: an observational study in the U.K.

Chudasama YV, Zaccardi F, Gillies CL, Razieh C, Yates T, Kloecker DE, Rowlands AV, Davies MJ, Islam N, Seidu S, Forouhi NG, and Khunti K

BMC infectious diseases. Sep 2020

(DOI : 10.1186/s12879-021-06600-y)

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Social inequality and the syndemic of chronic disease and COVID-19: county-level analysis in the USA.

Islam N, Lacey B, Shabnam S, Erzurumluoglu AM, Dambha-Miller H, Chowell G, Kawachi I, and Marmot M

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Sep 2020

(DOI : 10.1136/jech-2020-215626)

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Currently prescribed drugs in the UK that could upregulate or downregulate ACE2 in COVID-19 disease: a systematic review.

Dambha-Miller H, Albasri A, Hodgson S, Wilcox CR, Khan S, Islam N, Little P, and Griffin SJ

BMJ Open. Sep 2020

(DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040644)

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Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries.

Islam N, Sharp SJ, Chowell G, Shabnam S, Kawachi I, Lacey B, Massaro JM, D'Agostino RB, and White M

BMJ (Clinical research ed.). Jul 2020

(DOI : 10.1136/bmj.m2743)

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COVID-19 and climatic factors: A global analysis.

Islam N, Bukhari Q, Jameel Y, Shabnam S, Erzurumluoglu AM, Siddique MA, Massaro JM, and D'Agostino RB

Environmental research. May 2020

(DOI : 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110355)

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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a diabetes education and behavioural weight management programme versus a diabetes education programme in adults with a recent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: study protocol for the Glucose Lowering through Weight management (GLoW) randomised controlled trial.

Ahern AL, Woolston J, Wells E, Sharp SJ, Islam N, Lawlor ER, Duschinsky R, Hill AJ, Doble B, Wilson E, Morris S, Hughes CA, Brennan A, Bostock J, Boothby C, and Griffin SJ

BMJ Open. May 2020

(DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035020)

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Third-wave cognitive behaviour therapies for weight management: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Lawlor ER, Islam N, Bates S, Griffin SJ, Hill AJ, Hughes CA, Sharp SJ, and Ahern AL

Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. Oct 2019

(DOI : 10.1111/obr.13013)

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Third-wave cognitive behaviour therapies for weight management: systematic review and network meta-analysis protocol.

Lawlor ER, Islam N, Griffin SJ, Hill AJ, Hughes CA, and Ahern AL

BMJ Open. Aug 2018

(DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023425)

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Incidence and prevalence trends of youth-onset type 2 diabetes in a cohort of Canadian youth: 2002-2013.

Amed S, Islam N, Sutherland J, and Reimer K

Pediatric diabetes. Aug 2017

(DOI : 10.1111/pedi.12631)

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